Highest luxury, lowest impact While you're choosing outdoor furniture that will last, why not help the outdoors last longer too? There's a blossoming industry dedicated to Earth-friendly furniture materials and practices, and nowhere does ...
As previously communicated, in the face of increasingly difficult domestic trading conditions for its soda ash business and increasing costs, Penrice Soda Holdings Limited has decided to close soda ash production at its Osborne, Adelaide ...
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Which is best for the environment: disposable coffee cups or ceramic mugs? Are you guilty of getting your daily caffeine hit out of a disposable cup? If you are, you probably don't want to know that a three-cup-a-day habit will create a ...
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Over the past two weeks, glass manufacturing workers at CSR Viridian’s plants in Sydney and Melbourne have spoken to World S ocialist W eb S ite correspondents about the closure and merger of facilities that will cost more than 200 ...
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There are some common construction terms for wood furniture that come up again and again.What does it mean when the manufacturer says it is made of hardwood?Softwood?Engineered wood?Here is your chance to find out before you buy wood ...
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Luis Farias has an obsession. The vice president for energy and sustainability at CEMEX, the Mexican cement company worth more than $13 billion, is "obsessed" with reducing his company s carbon footprint. For the past several years, CEMEX ...
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The Swedish company Sodra recorded an operating result of -SEK929m for its business year 2012. The bulk of this was borne by the “Timber” division with an operating loss of -SEK469m. Interim CEO Gunilla Saltin attributes the ...
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Earlier, porcelain was associated with pottery. Indeed the first use of the concept of porcelain and ceramics was in the field of pottery, where kilns were used to fire (treat with intense give intense heat) and re-fire objects of clay that ...
A delegation consisting of Dr. Khaled Fahmy, Minister of Environment, Dr. Osama Kamal, Governor of Cairo, accompanied by a number of senior officials Shoura Council members and NGOs, visited on Tuesday, February 12th, 2013, Tourah Portland ...
As previously communicated, in the face of increasingly difficult domestic trading conditions for its soda ash business, Penrice Soda Holdings Limited has been conducting a strategic review of its entire chemicals business to improve its ...
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Saudi Cement Company has announced that it has recommenced production at three of its older kilns at its plant in Hofuf in a bid to boost capacity in the country. The company, which is based in Dammam, said that kilns 1, 2 and 3 at the ...
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If analyst are to be believed 2013 certainly augurs well for the coking coal market. Increased steel production projections by 3% touching 1.6 billion tones will catalyze turn around towards the Q2 as the initial days will continue in the ...
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ASEC Engineering has won its second consecutive 10-year contract for the technical management of Misr Qena Cement in Egypt.Speaking on behalf of ASEC Engineering in Qena,chief executive officer Mohamed Gala Yakout,said:We are very pleased ...
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Located in the middle of Fujian province, Te-hua is a small county in the southwest of Quanzhou. The lush forest and fine quality porcelain clay make Te-hua porcelain very famous. It is said that Te-hua porcelain began in Song dynasty, but ...
Tags: porcelain, ceramic white, national nonmaterial cultural heritage
PTI reported that 2 officials of a panel of the ministry of steel, along with a private firm and its director have been ordered by a Delhi court to be put on trial on cheating, forgery and corruption charges in a coal block allocation case. ...
Tags: Jpc Official, Coal Block, Praka, steel